Guest Editorial Security and Privacy of Multimedia and Multimodal Data for Consumers Electronic Applications

This is an era of the prevalence of multimedia, an era of a community of shared future in cyberspace. In the last few years, the number of available multimedia and multimodal applications increased at a fastest step also thanks to the availability of several multimedia editing tools. This has opened the way to more powerful and human-friendly devices and applications that use multimedia data. As Internet technology continues to evolve, the sharing of multimedia information between people has become more frequent, but it has also exacerbated privacy risks. Further, Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT), which are hidden inside everyday multimedia objects that surround us and help us in many smart applications, are becoming the dominant technologies in tele-healthcare, homes, mobile phones, intelligent devices and instruments, and consumer multimedia electronic. To make modern life easier, consumer electronic equipment is widely used to transmit multimedia information in many fields, such as academia, social media, healthcare, business, and industry. However, secure multimedia and multimodal data transmission are new challenges for many professionals and researchers. Therefore, it is of great research significance and application value to design and propose a secure system for multimedia data for consumer’s electronic applications. The guest editorial team believes that the articles included in this special section will be convenient security and privacy solutions of multimedia and multimodal data for consumer’s electronic applications.